I was digging around in the junk drawer and I saw some junk I did not recognize. After some research, I realized it was a wine foil splitter from back in the day when Gary was into wine, five years ago. Gary dropped wine four and a half years ago, because he follows his interests until BAM suddenly he's off wine, or biking, or making pie. “I am off lifting weights.” And weights are then dead to him.
At least I drop interest in hobbies as soon as I buy some expensive accessory. Gary gives no warning.
Gary's current interest is the Mansions of Madness board game. He owns every expansion pack and fiddly accessory you can find on Etsy. We’ve played it since Christmas. We have won exactly one round.
We were considering having some friends over to play, until he decided we would need to take the iPad that the game runs on and plug it into a giant monitor so everyone can see it, and do we have any monitors large enough, and maybe we need to buy -
"Stop right there." I said. "We are not buying a big-screen TV to play games on."
And since then he hasn't played the game. It's taking up our entire dining room table and we haven't touched it for two weeks. Now I fear he’s off games forever. Then again, maybe this is the secret to making him drop his hobbies. Maybe I’ve cracked the code on how to make Gary drop an obsession I don’t like. Maybe I just need to tell him his 18 hours cable news binges are using up too much electricity.
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